Icon: Talking Heads
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor
Arguably America's greatest new wave band, Talking Heads turned fine-art working methods and ideals - subversiveness, detachment, ambiguity, perpetual self-transformation - into magnificent pop songs about the relationship between mind, body and mystery. David Byrne was the least likely of great frontmen, a buttoned-down nerd with a voice like a frightened goose, but it turned out to be the perfect vehicle to upend the traditions of rock singing. Bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz… more »